Khakee (2004) on Netflix
DCP Anant Kumar Shrivastav leads a police team escorting Dr. Iqbal Ansari, an alleged terrorist, from Chandangarh to Mumbai. Suspended former officer Yashwant Angre is determined to stop them.
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Plot summary
Dr. Iqbal Ansari is captured in connection with riots and must be brought to Mumbai. An earlier convoy carrying him was attacked and its officers killed, so Deputy Inspector General of Police Shrikant Naidu assembles five police personnel for the road journey from Chandangarh. The team is led by the veteran DCP Anant Kumar Shrivastav and includes Senior Inspector Shekhar Verma, rookie Sub-Inspector Ashwin Gupte and two constables. In Chandangarh, school teacher Mahalakshmi tells them suspected terrorists had stayed on her school premises, and she travels with them. Yashwant Angre, a suspended former police officer, tracks the convoy and works to stop it reaching Mumbai.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Khakee (2004)
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- Akshaye Khanna was set to play Sub-Inspector Ashwin Gupte but walked out, and Ajay Devgn, first offered Senior Inspector Shekhar Verma, instead played the villain Yashwant Aangre — his second antagonist role after the 2002 thriller Deewangee. Tusshar Kapoor was later signed as Gupte.
- While filming in Nashik, Aishwarya Rai was hit by an out-of-control jeep and thrown into bushes at the roadside during a rehearsal with Tusshar Kapoor; she fractured her left foot and suffered bruises. The jeep was meant to stop 20 feet away from them.
- The film's fictional city of Nairoli is really Apta, near Panvel, and Apta's railway station was renamed Nairoli for the shoot-out scene.
- Rajkumar Santoshi wanted A. R. Rahman to compose Khakee's music, but Rahman did not sign the project because of other commitments; Ram Sampath got the job after an audition.
- Lara Dutta was signed for the item number "Aisa Jadoo", and after several actresses rejected the part, the role of Mahalakshmi was finalised with Aishwarya Rai.
